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davai!
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Location: Kuwait
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| I worked at a hagwon for a day that had cameras. The feed was sent to a monitor in the lobby with sound. Besides all the privacy issues I disagreed with, the director said happily that she was making tapes of the classes so she could play for students later! Ouch. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| davai! wrote: |
| I worked at a hagwon for a day that had cameras. The feed was sent to a monitor in the lobby with sound. Besides all the privacy issues I disagreed with, the director said happily that she was making tapes of the classes so she could play for students later! Ouch. |
Now I must admit this is an issue I hadn't thought of. Intellectual property. Technically, teaching methods to belong to the teacher, though they can tape the class and replay it as they paid you for it. Other opinons? |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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I have at my place now. I, like many on here, think they're mostly good... They protect you against false claims of being a bad teacher (or class 'controller') because parents can see what is really going on.
It's annoying sometimes. The manager who monitors my class will notice some student texting a message to a friend or something and come in and interrupt class to make him put it away. Or, in "English only" classroom, they catch some kid saying Asahh! and come in and whack his hand with a vacuum clean hose.. that part I could do without.
Also, I could do without the audio. Audio means they can hear me filling the students' minds with the evil of my western thoughts, ideas, and ways as I teach. |
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Francis-Pax
Joined: 20 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| Bottom line: I refuse to teach at a school that has cameras. |
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Zenpickle
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Location: Anyang -- Bisan
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| davai! wrote: |
| I worked at a hagwon for a day that had cameras. The feed was sent to a monitor in the lobby with sound. Besides all the privacy issues I disagreed with, the director said happily that she was making tapes of the classes so she could play for students later! Ouch. |
Now I must admit this is an issue I hadn't thought of. Intellectual property. Technically, teaching methods to belong to the teacher, though they can tape the class and replay it as they paid you for it. Other opinons? |
The work you do at the school can be considered 'for hire,' and thus the intellectual property of the school. Some contracts have this blatantly in there. I've taken the clause out of my school's contracts, though. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Zenpickle wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
| davai! wrote: |
| I worked at a hagwon for a day that had cameras. The feed was sent to a monitor in the lobby with sound. Besides all the privacy issues I disagreed with, the director said happily that she was making tapes of the classes so she could play for students later! Ouch. |
Now I must admit this is an issue I hadn't thought of. Intellectual property. Technically, teaching methods to belong to the teacher, though they can tape the class and replay it as they paid you for it. Other opinons? |
The work you do at the school can be considered 'for hire,' and thus the intellectual property of the school. Some contracts have this blatantly in there. I've taken the clause out of my school's contracts, though. |
THe work you do, yes, but not your teaching methods. Same goes for a book. You can buy a book, and you can read it to people, but you can't copy it. Or you can hire a lecturer to give a presentation on a topic, but the presentation still belongs to the lecturer if you didn't give it to him/her, not the people who hired the lecturer. |
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